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Violin bow

stick: stained with bands to make it look like snake-wood, with clear brown varnish; head: substantial and well cut, with a nickel face-plate; frog: ivory or bone, with rounded corner, nickel-mounted, with pearl slide, eye in plain pearl circles; adjuster: ebony and nickel with a pearl eye in the end; length 740, hair 648, diameter at frog 8.0, diameter at head 4.5, weight 66.2 gr.

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  • Period:early 20th century
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  • Repository:Royal Northern College of Music